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Enhancing resilience for food and nutrition security in small-island economies
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS) compared with continents are very different in land mass, population size and economies but face very similar challenges FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM NATURAL HAZARDS THE ROLE OF THE RESEARCH IS KEY IN ACHIEVING RESILIENT PRODUCTION, RESILIENT MARKETS AND RESILIENT PEOPLE HIGH FOOD IMPORT BILL INTERNATIONAL TRADE DEPENDENCE island COUNTRIES Home to more than 50 million people of the world population approx 5% 52 52 Tourism AGRICULTURE CONTRIBUTES MORE THAN CONTRIBUTES LESS THAN 40 % TO GDP 20 % TO GDP & TERRITORIES Knowledge is resilience. Discover more. www.cta.int LINKING research for INNOVATION TO INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PROMOTE AGRITOURISM ECONOMIC SHOCKS SMALL EXPORT VOLUME Competition for land - tourism and agriculture 1. CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE 2. NUTRITION-DENSE FOOD 3. REGIONAL TRADE OPPORTUNITIES More research needed on
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Small Island Developing States (SIDS)compared with continents are very different in land mass, population size and economies but face very similar challenges
FRAGILE ECOSYSTEMNATURAL HAZARDS
THE ROLE OF THE RESEARCH IS KEY IN ACHIEVING RESILIENT PRODUCTION, RESILIENT MARKETS AND RESILIENT PEOPLE
HIGH FOOD IMPORT BILLINTERNATIONAL TRADE DEPENDENCE
island COUNTRIESHome to more than 50 million people
of the world populationapprox 5%
52 52
Tourism AGRICULTURE CONTRIBUTES
MORE THAN
CONTRIBUTES
LESS THAN40%TO GDP
20%TO GDP
& TERRITORIES
Knowledge is resilience. Discover more. www.cta.int
LINKING
research for
INNOVATION
TO
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
PROMOTE AGRITOURISMECONOMIC SHOCKS
SMALL EXPORT VOLUME
Competition for land - tourism and agriculture
1. CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE2. NUTRITION-DENSE FOOD3. REGIONAL TRADE OPPORTUNITIES
M o r e r e s e a r c h n e e d e d o n
